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rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it.

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Features:

Finds…

  • …Duplicate Files and duplicate directories.
  • …Nonstripped binaries (i.e. binaries with debug symbols)
  • …Broken symbolic links.
  • …Empty files and directories.
  • …Files with broken user or/and group ID.

Differences to other duplicate finders:

  • Extremely fast (no exaggeration, we promise!).
  • Paranoia mode for those who do not trust hashsums.
  • Many output formats.
  • No interactivity.
  • Search for files only newer than a certain mtime.
  • ...

It runs and compiles under most Unices, including Linux, FreeBSD and Darwin. The main target is Linux though, some optimisations might not be available elsewhere.

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INSTALLATION

Chances are that you might have rmlint already as readily made package in your favourite distribution. If not, you might consider compiling it from source.

DOCUMENTATION

Detailed documentation is available on:

http://rmlint.rtfd.org

Most features you'll ever need are covered in the tutorial:

http://rmlint.rtfd.org/en/latest/tutorial.html

An online version of the manpage is available at:

http://rmlint.rtfd.org/en/latest/rmlint.1.html

Sometimes we can be reached via IRC: #rmlint on irc.freenode.net.

BUGS

If you found bugs, having trouble running rmlint or want to suggest new features please read this.

Also read the BUGS section of the manpage to find out how to provide good debug information.

AUTHORS

Here's a list of developers to blame:

Christopher Pahl https://github.com/sahib 2010-2016
Daniel Thomas https://github.com/SeeSpotRun 2014-2016

There are some other people that helped us of course. Please see the AUTHORS distributed along rmlint.

LICENSE

rmlint is licensed under the conditions of the GPLv3. See the COPYING file distributed along the source for details.

DONATIONS

If you think rmlint saved you some serious time1 and/or space, you might consider a donation. You can donate either via Flattr, PayPal or you buy us a beer if we ever meet. See here for details.


  1. If it freed you from your beloved data: Sorry.

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